ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Twelve people were killed and 35 were wounded Friday morning in a suicide bombing at a western Pakistan hospital, authorities said. The attack occurred at Civil Hospital in the city of Quetta, police said.

Among the dead were four police officers and a TV cameraman, authorities said. Police found the head of the suicide bomber and he appears to around 20 years old.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant group in Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the suicide blast, according to group spokesman Ali Sher Haideri.

In an unrelated incident, militants bombed a school in northwest Pakistan early Friday, officials said.

The attack on the five-room girls' school in the Charsada district of the North West Frontier Province is the latest in a series of blasts that have destroyed dozens of schools in the area in recent years.

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Anti Pakistani spies are blowing up Pakistan. The poor population of Pakistan cannot even feed their families. Just think for a moment . . . it costs a lot of money to destroy or cause blasts – way more than a piece of bread! These people have no money for a piece of bread even! The terrorist are foreign recruited, funded, trained and equipped by an enemy country. This is a very covert way of fighting a war against Pakistan. Majority of Pakistani people are not fooled, they understand this covert war against them and they are fighting it. Religon has nothing to do with it. . this is just an excuse for Bigots to come blowing up their horns of bigotry! The false staements and cover of religon is being thrown at them. The enemy of Pakistan is Foreign. Absolutely Foreign. They are trying to pull another Bangladesh but this time it is all understood. The natural target of the enemy is the innocent citizen and the arm forces.. .that's how the enemy works. The world should also become aware of this and not take it at it's face value. Pakistan needs a ten times more strong and modern armforce and then the Enemy Dare not even venture into such an adventure and that's the only way to keep the country clean in that part of the rough neighborhood. With good security more schools can be introduced effectively. Just a dose of Reality here.

i kust dont understand why all this are happening is it that all this people dont have feelings?????? cos i dont just understand .Blowing up hospital is name of religon ?? that's a big lie no religion permits that just that they are simply heartless.

I will never understand what the Islamic extremists hope to accomplish by blowing up innocent people along with themselves. Wow...you killed yourself...freak. What is the goal? Thew ultimate goal? I want to know what HAS TO HAPPEN in this world to make them happy. Then again, maybe they "just want to watch the world burn."

The terrorist groups were created by Pakistan ISI Agency and Milllitary to bleed India so they can occupy Kashimir. USA and many other nations never bothered until 2001. They were called Freedom Fighters by the Westerners. Only after 2001 USA and Western Nations rebranded them as terrorist groups. Pakistan is fully responsible for this and now God has made them to pay back what they did to India from 1961 til today. The only way to make this region free from Terrorism is to seperate the Wazaristan from Pakstan. Pakistan is more dangerous than Iran and North Korea. Hope USA will realize that!

Muslims the world over are mostly silent on what the extreme element among them is doing. Why? Do they secretly approve? Now they have openly threatened the creators of "South Park". Muslims should have no illusions about why the rest of the world hates them.

terrorism, murder and abuse is a very terrible thing, we do not need , we can all live better than that if we try, we can leave some decentcy for the next generation , we all have a choice, unfortunately so do the people that chose to do such things,

Schools hospitals getting blowin up?! That makes no sense stupid religion!! Kids shoot up schools? Stupid video games! People are going to do things like this till the end of times. If some one really wants to harm some one else they will find a way to do it.

Qur'an:8:39 "Fight them until all opposition ends and all submit to Allah."

Qur'an:8:12 "I shall terrorize the infidels. So wound their bodies and incapacitate them because they oppose Allah and His Apostle."

Qur'an:8:67 "It is not fitting for any prophet to have prisoners until he has made a great slaughter in the land."

Qur'an:33:26 "Allah made the Jews leave their homes by terrorizing them so that you killed some and made many captive. And He made you inherit their lands, their homes, and their wealth. He gave you a country you had not traversed before."

Qur'an:8:7 "Allah wished to confirm the truth by His words: 'Wipe the infidels out to the last.'"

Qur'an:8:39 "So, fight them till all opposition ends and the only religion is Islam"

It's easy doughboy. Keep the general population uneducated, in fear of their lives, and in need. Just like a gang of hoodlums controlling a neighborhood but on a larger scale. Has nothing to do with religion, just power and control.

Pakistan has been that way for around 70 years. The grandparents of today's Taleban and Al Qaida targeted Pak's minority religions 70 years ago – buddhists, hindus, christians, sikhs, parsis etc. and later East Pak's muslims. Over a million were killed and about 25 million refugees. And the old Pakistan was split into Pakistan and Bangladesh – 2 countries, following war. Now that the Pak govt is starting to take on the Taleban and Al Qaida, they killed Presidential candidate Bhutto and are attacking Pak's infrastructure. The world should support Pak govt in its internal war- because the danger is of Pak's nukes passing into the hands of these troublemakers. Pak's ISI has ties to these troublemakers also and is not to be trusted.

The Pakistan army needs to go into these tribal areas in the north-west frontier of Pakistan and finally take control of their country if they want to stop these Islamic extremists from all the bombings and killings. They have no right to live if they continue with their hateful, destructive and deadly ideology!

pakistan really needs to root out these militants and improve its intelligence operations. what gets me irritated is it seems that generally muslims all over seem to get disinformation that we are killing muslims all over yet dont they see the reality of what these terrorist are doing?

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